Comment # 16 on bug 1184543 from Stefan Dirsch

(In reply to Alynx Zhou from comment #14)
> See
> <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgnomekbd/-/blob/master/libgnomekbd/gkbd-
> keyboard-display.c#L60>, it's a little bit old program and is set to only
> run in X11 (or XWayland on Wayland), so it won't be a native Wayland client.

Hmm. Ok. So on a GNOME wayland session we rely on a keyboard configuration
tool, which only works with X11?
Wow! Good to know ...

> > Also I don't see why a Wayland
> > session should crash just because of Xwayland is crashing. I would expect
> > Xclients terminating but nothing more, i.e. not the whole Wayland session."
> 
> I think gnome-shell needs to keep a XWayland process running with it for all
> time now. There will be a XWayland run as needed feature in upstream but not
> in current version we are using.

Well, you could restart Xwayland if it would ever crash (losing the connected X
clients of course), but apparently the desktop is already becoming unusable
with Xwayland no longer running, so gnome-shell decides to just terminate. :-(